"Nulla dies sine linea". This is the motto and the operational project of Valerio Adami: the need for daily, constant and concrete exercise to progress. An invitation that is valid for any human activity and gives meaning to the whole existence.

 

Ambrosiana Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of about forty works, including drawings, papers and canvases that retrace the artistic career of Valerio Adami starting from the 1960s with Sguardovolto a (1961, oil on canvas, cm. 100x66), up to the present day with Studio per l'ultimo Pound (2012, acrylic on canvas, cm 146x65). The half century that separates them tells the story of a stylistic evolution traced by those lines that accompany the progressive steps of the artist's creativity. The works in the exhibition are bearers of philosophical-political reflections, as a common thread of this exhibition, which, especially with the works of the Seventies, are the expression of a sublime fusion between gesture and thought, a personal language that makes Adami's art international.

 

About thirty years after the exhibition of Valerio Adami, on the occasion of the opening of the new Poleschi Arte headquarters in Lucca, with the patron of the gallery Vittorio Poleschi, his son Andrea Poleschi has decided to pay homage once again to this great artist in his Milanese gallery, Ambrosiana Art Gallery, with an anthological exhibition that retraces fifty years of painting. On June 6, 2022, in conjunction with and with the participation in the edition of Interni and Fuorisalone 2022, Ambrosiana Art Gallery will inaugurate the exhibition Valerio Adami. Nessun giorno senza linea curated by Luciano Caprile. The drafting of this project was born about a year and a half ago, when Andrea Poleschi found in his father Vittorio's storage rooms, a canvas that Valerio dedicated to the latter on the occasion of the inauguration of the Lucca exhibition on May 8, 1993.

 

From that moment on, the collection of paintings from the Sixties and Seventies began and everything began to take shape. The works found are related to projects for the development of enormous canvases, very important, kept in the artist's private collection or in the collections of museums around the world. After a few telephone conversations, at the beginning of April, Andrea had the pleasure of going to Paris as a guest in Valerio's studio. They were very heartfelt moments, in which they revisited their past together, their friendship with their father Vittorio and the future of this project.